Santa Claus Theory

Famous quotes containing the words santa claus, santa, claus and/or theory:

    I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
    Shirley Temple Black (b. 1928)

    On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe.
    Johnny Mercer (1909–1976)

    “That’s where I reckon Santa Claus comes in
    To be our parents’ pseudonymity
    In Christmas giving, so they can escape
    The thanks and let him catch it as a scapegoat....”
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)